#earning

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#gained #hath #learning #lost #most

The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some of the most stressful times of their lives. What if companies took this unhappy collision of life events seriously? They could offer Gottman’s intervention as a benefit for every newly married, or newly pregnant, employee. ↗

— John Medina

#learning #priorities #family

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#because #best #community #comparisons #countries

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#failure #learning #less #people #reasons

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#audience #certain #certain things #fun #how

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#african-american community #attitude #black #brown #city

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#again #back #came #comes #energy

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge. ↗

— Edward Levi

#accessibility #alive #along #broad #fields

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them. ↗

— Carl Levin

#chance #democracy #denying #ignoring #iraq

I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China. ↗

— Jet Li

#arts #championship #china #coach #first